Keynote: When would you choose to be alive?

An excerpt from Ross Dawson’s keynote speech to a major telecoms firm’s management team where he explains why now is the most exciting time in human history to be alive.

Full Transcription: When would you choose to be alive?

Ross Dawson:

I would like you to imagine that you could choose to live at any time in human history.
When would you choose to be alive?
Perhaps in the Renaissance, when there was an explosion of creativity, art, and science.
Perhaps you’d like to live in the Roman times, when they really knew how to throw a party.
But for me, there is absolutely no question.
Now is the most exciting time in human history.
Now is the time when the pace of chance is so great that every day our minds are boggled by the new possibilities, for organizations, for individuals, indeed for humanity.